Péndulo y plomada, extract from a text by Max Hernandez Calvo

(...)Péndulo y plomada uses Uruguayan artist Gonzalo Fonseca’s sculpture La Torre de los Vientos*) as a reference, which was originally designed as a sort of “refuge sculpture” and built in the context of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Andrade recreates Fonseca's piece, exploring its scope by marking the limits of the habitat and the monument through the lens of fragility: the tower is destabilized—from the weight we move on to the pendulum—signaling the inevitable collapse of the forms we raise and assemble to take shelter and the eventual disappearance of our historical markers. (...)

*) English: The Tower of the Winds.